Contact Information
3148 Flb
707 S Mathews
M/C 170
Urbana, IL 61801
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
Additional Campus Affiliations
Interim Director, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
CAS Professor, Center for Advanced Study
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
Highlighted Publications
Murav, H. (1992). Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique. Stanford University Press.
Recent Publications
Murav, H. (2021). Documentary Fiction of the Pogroms of the Civil War. In E. M. Avrutin, & E. Bemporad (Eds.), Pogroms: A Documentary History (pp. 176-192). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060084.003.0009
Murav, H. (2021). The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project. Ab Imperio, 2021(4), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2021.0091
Murav, H. (2020). From the Editor. Slavic Review, 79(4), 920. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2020.205
Murav, H. (2019). Archive of violence: Neighbors, strangers, and creatures in Itsik Kipnis’s months and days. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2019(15), 49-73.
Murav, H. (2019). David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity. (Jews in Eastern Europe). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcj2qj2